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By WIL FULTON Red Bank’s school board unanimously approved the borough’s 2013-2014 school budget at the Thursday night before a small group of residents and school officials at the primaryContinue reading "MORANA: SCHOOL TAX COULD’VE BEEN WORSE"
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March 29th, 2013 @ 7am
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R-FH BUDGET: R TAX UP, FH, DOWN
Rumson resident Joe Kopel raises a few questions with the R-FH board Tuesday night. (Photo by Sarah Klepner. Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER With six residents in the audience,Continue reading "R-FH BUDGET: R TAX UP, FH, DOWN"
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March 27th, 2013 @ 11am
RBR BUDGET SAILS TO PASSAGE
By SARAH KLEPNER Red Bank Regional’s board of education unanimously passed the district’s 2013-2014 budget last week, with no comment from the public. The 50-minute meeting Thursday night was sparselyContinue reading "RBR BUDGET SAILS TO PASSAGE"
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March 25th, 2013 @ 3pm
RBR TEACHERS, BOARD RESUME TALKS
Teachers and board members returned to the bargaining table Thursday night. (Click to enlarge) By SARAH KLEPNER More than two years into a drawn-out negotiation process, including almost a year-and-a-halfContinue reading "RBR TEACHERS, BOARD RESUME TALKS"
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March 22nd, 2013 @ 7am
Red Bank property owners could face a 5.6-percent increase on their borough school tax bills, according to a report in Tuesday’s Asbury Park Press. A proposed $22.8 million budget forContinue reading "UP: INSURANCE, ENROLLMENT & SCHOOL TAX"
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March 5th, 2013 @ 5am
RED BANK: SCHOOL AID TO RISE 13 PERCENT
Red Bank Primary School. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge) Red Bank schools will see a $339,000 increase in budgetary help from Trenton next year, the Christie Administration announcedContinue reading "RED BANK: SCHOOL AID TO RISE 13 PERCENT"
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March 1st, 2013 @ 9am
RED BANK STUDENTS TUNE IN FOR TECH JOBS
Students from Red Bank and elsewhere participating in a four-way conference in a telepresence room at AT&T Labs in Middletown, above. Coolspeak founder Carlos Ojeda Jr. addresses the students, below. (PhotosContinue reading "RED BANK STUDENTS TUNE IN FOR TECH JOBS"
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March 1st, 2013 @ 6am
Installers laid down rubber pellets as the base for the new artificial turf at Count Basie Fields in January. (Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON With the first day ofContinue reading "RED BANK REC GEARS UP FOR SPRING"
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February 26th, 2013 @ 1pm
SEA BRIGHT: OPERATION SHEETROCK TRIMMED
The rebuilding of a public access stairway over the sea wall is among the projects in the scaled-back volunteer outreach, says coordinator Frank Lawrence, below. (Photo below by Wil Fulton.Continue reading "SEA BRIGHT: OPERATION SHEETROCK TRIMMED"
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February 26th, 2013 @ 8am
LINCROFT: FOUR PONDS PLAN HEADS TO COURT
The Middletown Planning Board last year rejected a proposal for 342 homes on the site of a former Avaya office building. (Photo by Joe Fisher. Click to enlarge) By JOEContinue reading "LINCROFT: FOUR PONDS PLAN HEADS TO COURT"
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February 21st, 2013 @ 9am
Red Bank Regional graphics students Damian DeSena and Jessica Olivera produced this video – for parents who “have never gotten that memo” – on morning drop-off no-nos at the Little Silver school.Continue reading "RBR: HOW NOT TO DROP OFF YOUR KID"
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February 18th, 2013 @ 9am
LITTLE SILVER: Criminal charges against school psychologist dismissed and expunged.
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February 15th, 2013 @ 6pm
CHARTER SCHOOL INTERNS STEP OUT TO WORK
Red Bank Charter School intern Maya Ghosh at work at Paint A Tee on Monmouth Street. Below, Amanda Annaruma in the laundry room at Hair & Company, on White Street.Continue reading "CHARTER SCHOOL INTERNS STEP OUT TO WORK"
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February 5th, 2013 @ 10am
RED BANK: KING DAY, IN SONG AND STRIDE
A commemoration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Pilgrim Baptist Church featured musical performances and readings by students from local schools. Below, Red Bank Charter SchoolContinue reading "RED BANK: KING DAY, IN SONG AND STRIDE"
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January 22nd, 2013 @ 7am
Hundreds of hardy souls dashed into the bracing waters of the Atlantic Ocean in Sea Bright Sunday as part of a fundraiser for parochial schools organized by the Ancient OrderContinue reading "POLAR BEARS GO SQUIRRELY IN SEA BRIGHT"
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January 14th, 2013 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN STARTS SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH
Community and school board members assembled at Knollwood School Thursday night regarding the search for a new superintendent to replace Kathi Cronin, below. (Photo above by Danielle Tepper. Click toContinue reading "FAIR HAVEN STARTS SUPERINTENDENT SEARCH"
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January 11th, 2013 @ 7am
LAYING DOWN SOME RUBBER AT BASIE FIELDS
A spreader scatters crumb rubber on one of the new artificial-turf ballfields at Count Basie Fields in Red Bank as part of a $2.1 million makeover of the facility Wednesday.Continue reading "LAYING DOWN SOME RUBBER AT BASIE FIELDS"
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January 10th, 2013 @ 10am
SCHOOL ARTS TO GET INSTRUCTOR BOOST
Count Basie CEO Adam Philipson and director of education Yvonne Lamb Scudiery meet the press on Tuesday. (Photo by Wil Fulton. Click to enlarge) By WIL FULTON Red Bank’s youngest studentsContinue reading "SCHOOL ARTS TO GET INSTRUCTOR BOOST"
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January 10th, 2013 @ 9am
RUMSON HONORS R-FH RUNNERS, COACHES
Coaches Tim McLoone, in gray cap, and Henry Mercer, at center, mingle with supporters at Meadowridge Park before Friday’s dedication of a plaque, below, honoring the 2011 Rumson-Fair Haven girls’Continue reading "RUMSON HONORS R-FH RUNNERS, COACHES"
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January 7th, 2013 @ 7am
SANDY LOOMS OVER HOLIDAY GIVING
Little Silver – Many of Red Bank Regional High School’s students come from beach towns and were faced with tragedy when their homes were struck by Hurricane Sandy. Some lostContinue reading "SANDY LOOMS OVER HOLIDAY GIVING"
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December 27th, 2012 @ 10am
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DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!